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Netflix Hit ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’: Colombia’s Locations From Caribbean Sun to Rose-Tinged Salt Flats, Marshy Mountain Moors, a Mangrove Swamp and That Key Big Tree

‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ underscores the potential and range of Colombia’s locations, and expertise at finding and securing them.

So it’s no coincidence that the series finds Macondo all over Colombia, in a total 32 provinces (departamentos), whether a street-corner building backed by modern high-rises (above), or a perfectly preserved dining room in a private house (below) or the facade of an 1890’s pharmacy. Created adapting or building for scratch huts in an old ranchería near Valledupar, the main town east of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the opening scenes captures the climate of the Caribbean seaboard. 1, minute 7.48), Úrsula reveals the dazzling light, blue skies and low-lying trade wind cumulus clouds of the Caribbean seaboard (above) plus other huts simulating the mud, cactus trunk wood and palm roofs of a Guajira Wayuu ranchería, notes Toro.

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